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Nope, but I think I found the solution - Deleting the reference named, "Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications Extensibility 5.3" removes the above mentioned warning/error.
How to resolve the build warning/error: Could not determine the dependencies of the COM reference "VBIDE". Error loading type library/DLL.?
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Prateek Arora
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Hello there,
I am not sure why I am getting this warning when I build my project, even though I do not have a reference with the name VBIDE.
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Community\MSBuild\Current\Bin\Microsoft.Common.CurrentVersion.targets(2827,5): warning MSB3304: Could not determine the dependencies of the COM reference "VBIDE". Error loading type library/DLL. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80029C4A (TYPE_E_CANTLOADLIBRARY))
But I did have an Excel, word and Office reference. I removed them and added Microsoft.Interop.Excel (v15.0.0.0), Microsoft.Interop.Word (v15.0.0.0) and Microsoft Office Object Library 15.0 but I still have the error. Any help would be appreciated, thanks!
Also, the only reference being used closest to the location mentioned above in the error is adodb.dll from the reference path C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Community\Common7\IDE\PublicAssemblies\adodb.dll but my project is compiled for x64 bit. But I think Visual Studio 2019 is only installed in Program Files (x86) too anyways so hopefully that doesn't have anything to do with the error but I'm not sure.
I am using Visual Studio 2019 with .NET Framework 4.8
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Anna Xiu-MSFT 31,056 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff2022-12-01T07:21:26.727+00:00 Hello, what is your project type? Could you tell me how you added the references? Is it under Assemblies or COM in Reference Manager?
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Prateek Arora 6 Reputation points
2022-12-02T02:39:59.723+00:00 Hello Anna, Not sure about the project type but its a Windows form app and the Project file name ends with .vbproj so I am guessing its a Visual Basic.NET project. I added the reference by right clicking the project -> Properties -> References -> Deleted the old references since they had "The system cannot find the reference specified" as shown below:
So I removed them and added Microsoft.Interop.Excel and Microsoft.Interop.Word from Assemblies in Reference manager and Microsoft Object Library 15.0 from COM since they were only available over there respectively as seen below:
As when I search for Excel in COM, it does not show me any COM named Microsoft.Interop.Excel but when I search it on Assemblies, I can see it as shown below
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Anna Xiu-MSFT 31,056 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff
2022-12-02T09:45:05.507+00:00 After you re-add the Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word and Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel from Assemblies and rebuild your project, does the warning persist?
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Prateek Arora 6 Reputation points
2022-12-03T04:56:23.6+00:00 Yes, and also added Microsoft Office 15.0 Object Library since Microsoft.Office.Core wasn't there.
I do realise both the Interop ones that were previously there were from COM but the ones I have added says .NET as seen in the screenshots above. Also, I have Excel and Word 2013 installed on the PC if that has anything to do with them.
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Prateek Arora 6 Reputation points
2022-12-06T02:29:34.017+00:00 @Anna Xiu-MSFT Is there anything I could do to resolve the warning/error?
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Anna Xiu-MSFT 31,056 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff
2022-12-07T09:42:23.617+00:00 Are you using the latest version of VS2019?
Please update your VS2019 to the latest version and temporarily disable or uninstall the installed extensions under Extensions > Manage Extensions > Installed.
Then, clean and rebuild your project.
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Anna Xiu-MSFT 31,056 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff
2022-12-15T13:12:47.597+00:00 Thanks for your sharing!
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